6 NATIONAL DEFENSE CHIEF PROBLEM OF SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS: APPROPIATED BILLION Washington, D. C., Sept. 8. —The first session of the Bixty-fourth Con gress, which adjourned to-day. was concerned chiefly with national de fense. When the gavel fell Congress had directed reorganization and re-equip ment of the army and navy for de fense of the country at the unprece dented cost of $656,000,000, with au thorizations that will lncresi.se the total In three years to nearly $800,000,000. With all other expenditures, appropri ations were brought to the grand total of $1,687,583,682, the greatest aggre gate In the country's history and ex ceeding that for the last fiscal year by more 'than half a billion dollars. Expenditures necessitated by pre paredness and the calling into action of military forces to meet the Mexican emergency demanded revenue legis lation in the closing days of the ses sion. Congress responded by doubling the normal tax on incomes, creating an Inheritance tax. munitions tax and miscellaneous excise taxes to raise $206,000,000 and by directing sale of $180,000,000 Panama canal bonds. Congress established a tariff com mission, a government shipping hoard to rehabilitate the American merchant marine, a workmen's compensation commissidn to administer a new uni form compensation law, a farm loan banking system, a child labor law, en larged the system of self-government in the Philippines and enacted many other important laws which had been contemplated by the administration. Foreign Complications Threaten The session was disturbed through out by frequently recurring threats of foreign complications from the Euro pean war and imminence at one time of a diplomatic break with Germany; Interference with American mails and commerce; invasion of American soil and killing of Americans by Mexican bandits and danger of actual war with Mexico. Later la the session trouble arose in the Senate over the nomination of Louis D. Brandeis, of Boston, to suc ceed the late Justice Lamar as a mem ber of the Supreme Court. Weeks of investigation and deliberation by the Judiciary committee ended In con firmation of Mr. Brandeis by a large majority. In the week before adjournment Congress was occupied with legislation which prevented a threatened nation wide railroad strike. President Wil son, after futile negotiations with of ficials of the railroads and railroad brotherhoods, submitted the contro versy to Congress, recommending: legis lation to avert the strike and to pre vent such emergencies from arising In the future. After a week of consideration, dur ing which the President visited the Capitol daily, conferring with adminis tration leaders, a bill was passed to establish an eight-hour day as a basis for pay of railroad workers, the pres ent rate of pay for ten hours' work not 432 Market St. 1 STOP! LOOK! THINK! 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High Grade Butterine, 2 lbs 38# All Meats Government Inspected MARKETS IN 13 STATES Main Office, Chicago, 111. Packing House, Peoria, 111. WANTED—2S BUTCHERS KKIDAY EVENING, to be reduced and the men to receive pro rata pay for work In excess of eight hovrs pending an investigation by a special commission Into the effect of tho eight-hour day on railroad reve nues. Important Laws Most Important legislative enact ments of the session, exclusive of laws for national defense. Included the fol lowing: GOVERNMENT SHIP LAW —Ap- propriating $50,000,000 to operate ships in foreign and coastwise trade when unable to lease them to indi viduals or private corporations. CHIL LABOR LAW —Denying inter state commerce to products of mines and quarries employing children under sixteen years of age and factories, mills, canneries and other establish ments employing children under four teen years. KURAL CREDITS LAW—Establish ing a Form Loan Board, in control of a system of farm loan mortgage banks. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION LAW—Providing uniform sick and ac cident benefits for employes of the Federal government and benefits to de pendents in case of death. EMERGENCY REVENUfe LAW — Providing for doubling the normal in come tax on the lowest class; making an additional surtax, ranging from 1 per cent, on that portion of incomes exceeding $20,000 to 13 per cent, on amount of incomes In excess of $2,000,000; levying a graduated tax of 1 per cent, on inheritances ranging from $50,000 to $5,000,000; a 10 per cent, net profit tax on manufacturers of munitions, 5 per cent, net profit tax on manufacturers of materials enter ing into munitions; a license tax on actually Invested capital stock or cor porations capitalized at more than $99,000; wine, beer and liquor excise taxes and miscellaneous stamp taxes. GOOD ROADS LAW —Providing for co-operative Federal aid to the States for construction of highways and ap propriating $75,000,000 to be spent In five years. POSTAL SAVINGS LAW —Amend- ment increasing the amount which ln di\iduals may deposit from SSOO to SI,OOO with interest and an additional SI,OOO without interest. FEDERAL RESERVE Amend ments., including amendment to the Clayton antitrust law, permitting of ficers and directors of member banks to become officers and directors of not more than two other noncompeting banks; amendments permitting na tional banks to establish foreign branches, liberalizing regulations for discounting commercial paper and per mitting member banks in towns of 5,000 or less population to act as agents for insurance companies. RAILROAD LEGISLATION—Crea tion of a joint subcommittee of the Senate and House Interstate commerce committees to Investigate necessity for further legislation for railroads and the Interstate Commerce Commission, BBBBi Vfm. Strouae—Clothier—Hatter—Furnisher Fall Clothes?——— I Certainly! —this way please— f You'll hear that every day now in The New Store. 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TARIFF —Creation of a nonpartisan tariff commission of five members to investigate and advise Congress on tariff revision; repeal of the free sugar provision of existing tariff law; amend ments increasing duties on dyestuffs to encourage manufacturing dyestuffs in the United States; enactment of an antidumping provision to prevent dumping of foreign-made goods at less thun foreign market prices; author ization for the President to retaliate against foreign nations prohibiting im portation of goods from the United States by layihg an embargo against imports from offending nations. COTTON FUTURES ACT—Provid ing a prohibitive tax on cotton sold for future delivery in fictitious or wash sales. PHILIPPINES—Law to provide for a more autonomous government of the islands, enlarging self-government, re organizing election laws, establishing an elective senate and promising inde pendence whenever, In the judgment of the United States, the Philippine people demonstrate capability for it. RAILROAD EIGHT-HOUR DAY LAW—Establishing eight hours as the standard for reckoning the compen sation of railroad employes operating trains in interstate commerce after January 1, 1917, and providing for a .'ommission of three to investigate the effects of the eight-hour standard, present wages not to be reduced dur ing the Investigation nor for thirty days thereafter, and work In excess of eight hours to be paid for at a pro fata rate. Appropriates Billion Appropriations for all purposes were: Agriculture $24,948,852 Army . 267,596.530 Diplomatic and consular 5,355,096 District of Columbia ... 12,841,907 fortifications 25,748,050 Indian affairs 10,967,644 Legislative and executive 37,925,690 Military Academy 1,225,043 Navy 313,300,095 Pensions 158,065,000 Post office 322,937,679 River and harbor 40,598,135 Sundry civil 128,299,285 Permanent appro prl atiens 131,074,673 Shipping hill 50,100,000 Deficiencies ........... 72,500,000 Kurul credits 6,100,000 Good roads 6,000,000 Floods 2,000,000 Grand total $1,637,583,682 In addition to the total there were authorizations for expenditures in future years including naval, good roads, tariff commission and other ex penditures to bring the total to ap proximately $2,000,000,000, but these amounts do not properly apply to the appropriations for the fiscal year. Many Bills Go Over In addition Congress enacted an un usually large amount of miscellaneous legislation, including reorganization of the Patent Office; provision for trial of space system in place of weight sys tem for payment for railroad mail service and leaving to the Interstate Commerce Commission determination of the method and rate of pay; crea tion of a National Park Bureau in the Department of the Interior; establish ing warehouse regulations for cotton and grains and providing a new grain grading law; extension for a year of the government War Risk Insurance Bureau; uniform law making bills of lading negotiable. Proposed legislation which failed of enactment and has gone over until next winter includes the immigration bill;-the corrupt practices act to limit campaign expenditures for election of the President, Vice-President and members of Congress: a vocational education bill passed by the Senate: connprvation legislation. Including the public lands water power bill, the Shields navigable streams water power bill, which failed in conference, the oil leasing bill, including relief for California oil men: c. flood control bill which passed the House, and a bill to citizenship for natives of Porto Rico. Four treaties were ratified by the Senate. The most tmportant was the lone pending Nlcaraguan convention, providing for the acquisition of a ca nal route and naval station rights In the Bay of Fonseca for <3,000.000, and that ratified in the closing hours provided for the purchase of the Dan ish West Indies for *25,000,000. Another was the treaty with the re public of Haiti, providing for ar. Arnprlcan financial protectorate. The much disputed pending treaty with Co lombia, after years of consideration, was favorably reported from the for eign relations committee with an amendment reducing from J25.000.000 to $15,000,000 tho proposed amount to hA nflJd for the partition of Panama. HARRIBBURO dSj&Sg TELEGRAPH The treaty, however, was never taken up in the Senate because of unrelent ing opposition to it on the part of many senators, and it remains on the calendar. The committee at the time of adjournment still had under consid eration the proposed treaty with Den mark for purchase of the Danish West Indies for $25,000,000. A treaty with Great. Britain providing for protection of migratory birds on both sides of the Canadian border was ratified. Death claimed four members of the Congress during the session, Senators Shively, of Indiana, and Rurleigh, of Maine, and Representatives Brown and Moss, both of West Virginia. Representa tive Withcrspoon, of Mirsisslppi, died Just before the session began. CONGRESS QUITS AFTER SMASHING ALL MARKS [Continued From l - 'irst Page] bers were on hand to watch the ses sion die. Most had hurried to their homes at the end of the late sessions last night, or even days before, and a month after the political campaign is finished in November, they must return for the short session. Last night both houses accepted the conference report on the emergency revenue bill without record votes and the Senate, before recessing an hour after midnight, ratined the Danish West Indies purchase treaty. The general deficiency appropriation bill also was approved as reported by con ferees. To-day's session was neces sitated only by need for time to re print the measure in the proper form to be signed. Conferees reached an agreement on the bill early in the evening after spending two days on it. The report was attacked by Sen ators Chamberlain and Jones because the amendment for retaliation against Canadian control of Pacific coast fish eries had been striken out. In the House, Representative Gard ner denounced the retaliatory provis ion against foreign interference, with American commerce. The session ends without final ac tion on Senator Owen's corrupt prac tices bill, on which debate persisted in the Senate yesterday and last night up to the time the revenue bill re port was taken up. As senators and representatives as sembled sleepy-eyed from brief rests following the arduous night sessions both houses marked rime while await ing the final formalities of the great est session of Congress in many re spects in history. Score Kxtravagancc In closing addresses while awaiting the arrival of President Wilson ref erences to the long program of legis lative achievement dominated chiefly by national defense preparations at a cost of more than $600,000,000 were made. Democrats lauded the record of the session and commended it to the country while Republicans sought to criticise, alleging waste and ex travagance in spite of the appropria tions for defense. Billion and Half Appropriated As the gavels were suspended to sound the end of the session recapitu lation of the nine months' work show ed that there had been appropriated for the year 1917 for expenditures of the government more than $1,600,- 000,000, and that authorizations had been made for future expenditures which would bring the grand aggre gate of appropriations almost to the $2,000,000,000 mark. Administration champions in informal reviews of the Congress answered Republican taunts of a "two Billion Congress" with dec larations that the "United States is a two billion dollar country." The Senate began its session at 8 a. m. following an adjournment at 1 a. m. upon passage of the emergency revenue bill. At the outset Senator James Hamilton Lewis sought to have passed the Spanish war widows pen sion bill. 1 Senator Owen then addressed the Senate on his corrupt practices bill.. In withdrawing the measure he said that the Democratic party had broken Its platform pledges relating to such an act but charged that a Republican filibuster was responsible for the dila tory tactics which had prevented a vote. Senator Chamberlain, of Oregon protesting against action of the rev enue conferees in striking from the bill his amendment which would pro hibit the admission of Pacific ocean salmon and halibut thrftugh a foreign country except In bond from an Am erican port, declared Congress had surrendered opportunity to develop a great American inaustry. To Investigate Foreign Ijobby Senator Curtis offered another reso lution directing the Senate "lobby committee" which has been in exist- ence for several years and has never reported, to Investigate the alleged foreign lobby. Senator Chamberlain urged its adoption. The homestead grazing bill was passed without record vote. It al ready has passed the House. It pro vides for stock raising homesteads, raising the maximum area which may be entered for that purpose from 160 to 640 acres. Tedious Session When the House convened at 8.30 a. m. Speaker Clark, Democratic .Leader Kilchin, Republican Leader Mann and a small number of mem bers on both sides were on the iloor to watch the wind-up. Speaker Clark and Republican Leader Mann exchanged the usual felicitations. Speaker Clark, addressing the House, referred to the session of Con gress as a long, tedious and laborious session. "No session of Congress in my rec ollection," he said, "stayed in session so many days and worked so many hours." "X am the only man," the Speaker went on, amid applause, "X know of, who invariably takes up cudgels for Congress. It is a strange predica ment that we are in in this country. Nearly eyery one would like an office; many run for office, few get office and everybody abuses those who do get the office. I think that the reason that they harp on Congress is that it is impersonal and does not hurt any one's feelings in particular. Some day 1 am going to take a whole hour to discuss the - relations of the American Congress to the American people." Signs Revenue Bill "Soon after the President reached the Capitol the revenue bill was ready for his signature. The Senate adopted the concurrent resolution for a ten o'clock adjournment, which already had been passed in the House. President Wilson signed the emer gency revenue bill at 9.25 o'clock in the presence of Senator Simmons, chairman of the Finance Committee, and Representative • Rainey, of the Ways and Means Committee. President Holds Reception The President held a reception in his room as a line of senators and representatives passed through while he sat at the table signing bills. To Senator Simmons the President ex pressed gratification over the passage of the revenue bill and its many legis lative features. He said, however, that he greatly regretted the failure of the Webb bill to provide for es tablishment of American collecting selling agencies in foreign countries. Senator Simmons also expressed his regret that the measure had failed, but said it would be pressed at the next session. Pension Bill Signed As the President was about to sign the twenty dollar widows pension bill with Representative Ashbrook, of Ohio, it 3 sponsor, by his side. Senators Smith, of Georgia and Bryan, of Flor ida, who opposed it vigorously until the last minute, entered the Presi dent's room and Mr. Ashbrook asked them to witness the signature. The President smiled as the two senators hurried away. At 9.30 o'clock the Senate appointed Senators Kern and Smoot to notify the President that Congress was ready to adjourn unless he had some fur ther communication to present. They were joined by Representatives Kit chin, Fitzgerald and Mann, the House Committee and the joint committee waited on the President at 9.3 5. Adjourn at 0.59 The President congratulated the leaders on the opportunity for a "well earned rest." Officially he Informed them that he had nothing further to communicate to the Congress. When they left the President's room the Chief Executive was joined by Sec retary Lansing who chatted with him as he continued to sign bills. Senator Kern notified the Senate ,»t 9.55 o'clock that the President had nothing further to communicate. Thereupon Senator Nelson, of Minne sota, offered a resolution of thanks to the Vice-President for his impar tial conduct in presiding over the Senate. The resolution was adopted and the Vice-President thanked the Senate in a brief address. Thereupon the Senate adjourned sine die at 9.59 o'clock. Marshall's Address Vice-President Marshall in his ad dress to the Senate said: "When I assumed the duties of this office I thought it would be a terrible thing to keep silent but the longer I stay here the more I think it is wiser to keep silent. We are about to leave here, some of us 'to point to pride' and others 'to view with alarm' but I hope when we all have come back we will have forgotten the animosities SEPTEMBER 8, 1916. of the campaign and will remember that we are good friends." Usual Hubbub The usual hubbub characterized the closing moments in the House after Representative Fitzgerald, Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, had made a statement regarding appro priations. fn discussing the expenditures Mr. Fitzgerald said the world was ablaze and the American people had awak ened to the fact and "to the belief that even the United States are not so completely isolated from the old world as to be free from all possibility of entanglement before the conflict stops." He said that accordingly ex traordinary steps had to be taken in the way of large expenditures for de fense. Representative Gillett, of Massa chusetts, said that "applying the Democrats' own standard and logic the session just closed far surpassed in extravagance any predecessor." In the closing minutes in the House a dozen members clamored for recog nition for leave to print remarks in the Congressional Record and their requests were hustled through in record breaking time. 252 LAWS PASSED By Associated Press Washington, Sept. 8. During the session of Congress closing to-day, 17.800 bills and 642 resolutions were introduced in the House. Of these, 252 bills became laws and 32 public resolutions were adopted, in addition to 150 private bills and resolutions passed. DEFENDS MEXICAN POLICY Washington, D. 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Compare the diamonds we of- J'//«/, fer with others at the same price else- i where and you will realize the su periorlty of quality and value. Our Save a Diamond plan is positively the fSffiK(V .J JWMTOJ greatest opportunity that you will ever have to acquire a fine white full cut, brilliant diamond at a very low cash V 2& price, without trouble or inconvenl ence, by merely making a small weekly deposit, for a few weeks. Come in At Once and Select Your Diamond In Advance If you do not fully understand all about our plan, we shall be pleased to give you any Information you may desire. H. C. CLASTER Gems —Jewels —Silverware 302 Market St. No. 1 N. Third S|. speech defending the Mpxican policy of President Wilson. Representatlva Harrison, Mississippi, Democrat, to day read to the House a telegram President Taft sent to the Governor of Arizona on April 18, 1911, saying that It was impossible to "foresee or reckon the consequences" of interven tion and that "we must use the great est self-constraint to avoid it." Mr. Harrison said the same conditions con fronted President Wilson as confronted President Taft and that the former had followed the same policy that the latter had followed. MIX-UP ON INCOMES By Associated Press Washington, D. C., Sept. B.—Mem bers of the conference committee on the revenue bill to-day pointed out an important change In the income tax section as finally approved, extending the $4,000 exemption, instead of tha $2,000 one, to "heads of families," whether married or not, replacing the provision of the old law which gave the larger exemption only to "married persons." NOTIFY DANES By Associated Press Washington, D. C., Sept. B.—ln a<fm cordance with diplomatic custom, the State Department to-day formally notified the Danish government of rati fication by the Senate of the treaty for American purchase of the Danish West Indies. Officials feel that prospects of its acceptance by the upper house of the Danish parliament is enhanced by the prompt action of the Senate.
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